Pro lighting skies ultimate free download

Pro-Lighting: Skies v1. So we listened to your feedback and improved the addon with a bunch of new features : Add Your Own Skies The addon comes with 80 high-quality skies built-in. The One Click Solution Just Got Better You can now navigate between all the skies faster than ever with the introduction of categories. No more black "abyss" One of the biggest requests from users was for the ability to remove the black bottom half of the sky. Plus a handful of other improvements and fixes: The add-on is now compatible with Blender 2.

The add-on now works when Automatically Pack Into. Previously this prevented you from changing skies. More stable image loading and error checking - plus better user feedback when something goes wrong The installation process of the HDRIs themselves is easier than before - simply select each zip file and press install.

No more messing around with folders. A sun lamp is only one light source, when you should be using closer to a million. HDR lighting uses a single degree photograph to light your scene instead of lamps.

This gives you that infinite dome of lighting needed to create realistic lighting. Not surprisingly, this has quickly become a standard for the industry. However, as much as I love HDR lighting, it causes a list of problems:. The average high-res HDR ranges from mb in size. Which is huge! So when it comes to rendering, Blender frequently crashes:. While rendering an animation once, a scene repeatedly crashed despite our best efforts to optimize it.

It was only when we looked at the lighting that we realized a single HDR sky was spiking the memory usage by a massive 4GB! Due to their large size, HDRs can take over a minute to load their own thumbnail. Few things are as tedious as waiting for 30 hdr thumbnails to load. Want to change the direction of the lighting? All these technical burdens take you away from what you should really be doing: creating art.

This is the big one. There are some free HDRs online. But you usually get what you pay for, as many are out of focus, low resolution or just poor quality in general. Light your 3d scenes and surround them with HDR panoramas that have been created with specific criteria in mind that most other HDRIs don't offer: large-scale backgrounds, very high brightness range, efficiently compressed, high resolution, to name a few. They also have the never-seen before feature of color-tweaking, for the utmost control of their look.

It is an HDRI manager. Simply choose from the thumbnails list. You can still manually change the generated world materials if you need. Then see all your installed collections at a glance, list the HDRIs as thumbnails, and select the one to use in the current scene. Download and start using it right away. Also download SceneSkies' collections below to get started. Quickly rotate the environment to change the direction of the sun light or moon light with a simple control.

Use random rotation to easily switch between different directions. With a click of a button, export your whole 3d scene even an empty scene if you just want the world background as 6 cube side images for use in game engines. Unique to SceneSkies is the ability to control the color and intensity of the sun, atmosphere, clouds and ground, independently of one another.

Fine-tune the panoramas color and look for your specific needs, even to a point of having almost a different environment. See below. Never seen before and totally unique to SceneSkies: change the color and brightness intensity of the sun, the atmosphere, the clouds, and the ground surface, all independently of each other. This unique feature of SceneSkies' panoramas is perfect when you need to have lighter or darker clouds, have a warmer or colder sun color, more or less contrasted shadows on the ground and mountains, have a thicker or thinner atmosphere, have a different shade of blue for the sky, change the color of the mountains, and more colored clouds, no atmosphere, etc By tweaking the color and intensity of those 4 elements, you can have radically different visual results from the same panorama, giving you control over the look you're after, or the possibility to experiment in subtle or extreme ways.

Best of all: your changes do impact the lighting of your scene. At 16k you'll have highly detailed backgrounds. Lower resolutions are available: 12k and 8k. Choose the one for your needs and budget. Once you buy a given resolution, you can upgrade to a higher resolution anytime, and by paying just the difference. That's at least 20 times cheaper. SceneSkies' panoramas have been digitally rendered.